To Ned (Herman Melville Poems)
Where is the world we roved, Ned Bunn? Hollows thereof lay rich in shadeBy voyagers old inviolate thrown Ere Paul Pry cruised ...
Poems about overrun (21 Poems)
A Baby’s Dress (Hazel Hall Poems)
It is made of finest linen-Sheer as wasp-wings;It is made with a flowing panelDown the front,All overrun with fagot-stitched bow-knotsHolding ...
Nat Pinkerton (Paul Colinet Poems)
The blue glasses, found in an elevated railroad car,belong to the victim, Lady Morton.But Nat and the coroner, misled to ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Third. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
While morning yet was young, within his hall Of justice Pharaoh sat: his princes, priests, Judges, and ministers, in costly ...
Palinodia (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
TO THE MARQUIS GINO CAPPONI. I was mistaken, my dear Gino. Long And greatly have I erred. I fancied life ...
Seasons Of The Soul (Allen Tate Poems)
To the memory of John Peale Bishop, 1892-1944Attor porsi la mano un poco avante,e colsi un ramicel da un gran ...
The Coming Of Te Rauparaha. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
BLUE, the wreaths of smoke, like drooping bannersFrom the flaming battlements of sunsetHung suspended; and within his whareHipe, last of ...
Forest History (George Meredith Poems)
I.Beneath the vans of doom did men pass in.Heroic who came out; for round them hungA wavering phantom's red volcano ...
Madonna Of The Evening Flowers (Amy Lowell Poems)
All day long I have been working, Now I am tired I call: "Where are you?" But there is only ...
Implora Pace (Charles Lotin Hildreth Poems)
"I STOOD within the cypress gloom Where old Ferrara's dead are laid, And mused on many a sculptured tomb, ...
Consolation (Cale Young Rice Poems)
ICome to me, shadows, down the hill,Lie softly at my feet.The sun has worked his willAnd the day is done.Come ...
NOVEMBER SONG. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
To the great archer--not to him To meet whom flies the sun, And who is wont his features dim With ...
The Spectacles (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
The Bucking-Tub (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IF once in love, you'll soon invention find And not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind; The youngest 'prentice, ...
Etienne de la Boéce (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
I serve you not, if you I follow, Shadow-like, o'er hill and hollow, And bend my fancy to your leading, ...
The Art Of Drowning (Billy Collins Poem)
I wonder how it all got started, this business about seeing your life flash before your eyes while you drown, ...
A Dead Rose (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
O Rose! who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet; But pale, and hard, and ...
The Four Zoas (excerpt) (William Blake Poems)
1.1 "What is the price of Experience? do men buy it for a song? 1.2 Or wisdom for a dance ...
Dark August (Derek Walcott Poems)
So much rain, so much life like the swollen sky of this black August. My sister, the sun, broods in ...
The Deserted Garden (Alan Seeger Poems)
I know a village in a far-off land Where from a sunny, mountain-girdled plain With tinted walls a space on ...
Paradise Regained: The Third Book (John Milton Poems)
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...